Travel: Beyond the cotton fields and unruly goats; Jeremy Atiyah takes a taxi along the river Euphrates in Syria to the Iraq border.(Features)

From: The Independent Sunday (London, England) | Date: March 25, 2001 | Copyright information

How do you find a cab driver willing to take you down the Euphrates? Easy. Go to the Baron Hotel in Aleppo. Hang around next to the wall-map entitled "Antiquites de Syrie". Pay attention to the drawing of the Valley of the Euphrates marked in bold black ink with diagrams of Hittite lions and Roman temples. Then wait to be ambushed by a globular hotel attendant called Abdu.

It worked for me, anyway. "I'm a taxi driver on my days off," was Abdu's gambit. "I've got an icebo...

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